Life Magazine – September 22, 1927 (# 2342) – Radio Number

Description

Cover : Man about to turn off the lamp before joining his girl on the loveseat, “The man at the Switch,” art by L. J. Holton.

• RADIO NUMBER (much humor pertaining to radio).
• Full page color ads for Stearns-Knight motor cars (with green and black car), Packard cars (also with green and black car), Atwater Kent radio speaker.
• Full page black and white ads Gorham silversmiths (with silversmith Thomas H. Yates), Metropolitan Life Insurance (with art by Gagney or Carney ?), Grebe radio (with neat comic strip by Lui Trugo).
• Cute half page artwork by John Held Jr., The speaker of the house, the family gathered around the gramophone.
• Full page art or cartoon art by L. J. Holton (Battle of the Centuries), C. H. Sykes (Welcome Home … to all the problems at home such as Flood control problem),
• The Montmartre of Hollywood, by Tom Mix.
• Two page centerspread art by R. V. Culter, Ring-side for the most important battle of the century, eager wounded soldiers gathering around the radio in the convalescent ward.
• Some current events include : Annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Sir Arthur Keith, Darwin, Wayne B. Wheeler the field marshal of the Drys has died.
• And much, much more (ads, artwork, commentary).